@ Cake Slice
Sure I can get you more pictures of the flamer. I just put a catachan flamer on him and used the mortar hand to hold the flamer tank.
As you can see its a simple conversion. I figured if these guys are going to be mechanized they don't want to have a huge fuel tank on there backs to get in the way but could go back the APC for more ammo.
@ burgers
I have been thinking about some new version of the lasgun but I just like it too much. If anything I might make a sight rail on some of them but that is a HUGE maybe.
@ SMVaaughn
I am going to start painting them once I get a squad or two of them done. Right now I have casted enough to make a squad but I have only 7 of them built yet.
++++ Progress report ++++ 8/30
So anyway on the Titan front I we have made the legs, and torso fully assembled we just have to finish the cotpit and make the weapons. We are going to make two of each weapon so we can have them set up anyway we need to in the game. I do not have any pictures of that as the titan is downstairs and I am all the way upstairs right now. .... Lazy but oh well some times it feels good to be.
Now for the infantry aspect. I have 7 troopers fully assembled and ready to be painted. I have a 5 torsos and 3 heads in the line up ready to go. One head was a bad cast so I am going to save it by making the helmet collapsed on his belt and he is going to be bare headed.
Production is going to be going up as I made a second set of molds.
The main thing about the new guards men is that I am making them a bit taller. For some reason I didn't notice this before but the standard IG can almost be nuckel dragers, there arms seem to be a bit disproportionate to there torsos so I made the body's a bit different. I can also make them different heights be just trimming a bit more off the torso, the ammo packs seem to cover it up well.
Showing the hight difference.
The left guy I trimmed a bit off the front to make him ducking. I just make the cut from the back and stop it once it reaches the back of the webbing.
I finally had some sculpting time. I started on the arm tonight.
My first try failed horribly. I attempted the sausage approach, making a tube of greenstuff and shaping it to an arm. It would have made a great gumby solider....
I then tried for another approach. Actually making the arm from the bones up. The paperclip was the arm bones and I made a very thin tube of green stuff to make in to muscle.
I just then piled them into the approximate positions. It doesn't have to be exact as I am going to be putting on some sleeves.
Thanks Col.Gravis on the hand help. I just now got to palms/wrist in the next day or so I might get to the fingers itself.
As for more customization I am going to make a few more arms and I am going to try for at least one per squad to have some sort of bionics in them to represent that they have been in combat for a long time and have accumulated plenty of causualties and purple harts. The Bionics tho will not be cast just some one off things. (Not everyone gets hurt the same way.)